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@dayvidyou.bsky.social

Queer, brown enby intactivist - Tkarónto - Illankai Tamil - they/them fully Vaxed - pro-Palestine - pro-Indigenous - these are my own thoughts - #qpoc #landback #blm #acab http://paypal.me/dayvidyou

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This is the way! ❤️❤️

17.11.2025 22:17 — 👍 75    🔁 12    💬 4    📌 0

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17.11.2025 22:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

09.11.2025 20:49 — 👍 10284    🔁 5662    💬 115    📌 339
a white Siberian husky puppy with tan ears sits in a secluded room in a vet's office on a bed made of white towels. his head is down, but he’s looking up with piercing blue eyes and a sinister blep. the markings around his eyes make it look as if his brows are severely furrowed like a super villain. he’s a spooky little guy. we’d recommend donating to his care or he’ll probably curse you for 7 years.

a white Siberian husky puppy with tan ears sits in a secluded room in a vet's office on a bed made of white towels. his head is down, but he’s looking up with piercing blue eyes and a sinister blep. the markings around his eyes make it look as if his brows are severely furrowed like a super villain. he’s a spooky little guy. we’d recommend donating to his care or he’ll probably curse you for 7 years.

This is Tender. He has parvovirus... and he's NOT thrilled about it. His littermate already passed away, but Tender is showing signs of improvement. You can help us cover the cost of his hospitalization and continued care below ❤️‍🩹

15outof10.org/tender

31.10.2025 17:07 — 👍 3088    🔁 330    💬 49    📌 16

This whole thread.

“Oh no, someone might eat food!”

Good. That’s good.

“They might buy something they like.”

Cool.

“They might get a treat!”

Also cool.

31.10.2025 19:48 — 👍 2281    🔁 510    💬 30    📌 4

Omg - you’re so right!

27.10.2025 02:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This is Wilson. He's attempting to lick the peanut butter off his nose. Just hasn't figured out how his tongue works yet. 12/10 (TT: fitler.furry.friends)

23.10.2025 15:53 — 👍 3895    🔁 447    💬 59    📌 24

As a white person, if you think telling MILLIONS of Black people in the south to simply MOVE AWAY to a “blue state” is not only going to SPARE them any suffering in this country but is even financially feasible for everyone, please put a bag over your head and breathe deep.

24.10.2025 13:55 — 👍 1283    🔁 217    💬 68    📌 30

Well deserved🎉🎉🎉

24.10.2025 18:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's impossible to look uncool landing an axe throw.

24.10.2025 18:16 — 👍 71    🔁 18    💬 6    📌 0

I mean really so what if you don't think we live under fascism at this point. Who cares. In slavery white folks felt everything in America was hunky dory. You're not in the crosshairs of fascism, you're not under oppression, so you don't think it's that bad, you ain't in the club, go be over there.

05.10.2025 17:07 — 👍 130    🔁 37    💬 6    📌 1
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Who do you want in charge of your kid’s future? | Save their futures

Doug Ford is cutting over $1 billion from post-secondary education, while giving multi-million dollar hand outs to corporations. Take action: savetheirfutures.ca

05.10.2025 17:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well don't I feel stupid

26.09.2025 23:02 — 👍 26125    🔁 6847    💬 289    📌 145
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A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

26.09.2025 13:22 — 👍 20804    🔁 5148    💬 1007    📌 675

My sister has been a cool lawyer for years, and now she teaches younger lawyers,and she told me something she does is make them go through the process of applying for assistance to make them understand the barriers and radicalize them

24.09.2025 00:37 — 👍 24    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0

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😍😍😍

21.09.2025 16:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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MAGA is convinced Tyler Robinson must be a liberal because he had a trans roommate, only...

15.09.2025 22:41 — 👍 604    🔁 104    💬 49    📌 13
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Tim Walz is running for reelection as governor of Minnesota

16.09.2025 16:34 — 👍 757    🔁 157    💬 25    📌 11
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Leave Jesus out of this.

19.09.2025 00:24 — 👍 492    🔁 92    💬 21    📌 1
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The streets need your voice!
We made the free signs & stickers. All you have to do is print & protest.

No ads. No bs. Just 160+ FREE protest posters to print & share. Leave ‘em out in your community screaming, while you walk away.🔥

PaperAmmunition.com -a wall near you called & it wants to protest!

19.06.2025 22:35 — 👍 120    🔁 51    💬 3    📌 14
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Like Trump, Hitler also tried to control art and history in the Third Reich. History was doctored for indoctrination, and modern artforms that he didn't like were banned. This soon turned everything into an awful shit-show of embarrasing mediocrity and talentless hyper-kitsch. ... Sound familiar?

17.08.2025 09:32 — 👍 72    🔁 18    💬 2    📌 0
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Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

19.09.2025 09:33 — 👍 19681    🔁 8200    💬 261    📌 768

When someone is having a mental health crisis, please do not call the police.

1 in 4 people killed by police are, or are perceived to be, experiencing a mental health crisis.

A person with unmet mental health needs is 16 times more likely to be killed by the police.

Cops don’t keep us safe.

09.09.2025 23:53 — 👍 457    🔁 222    💬 9    📌 3
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If it weren’t for this page, I’d lose all hope

06.08.2025 19:50 — 👍 229    🔁 32    💬 11    📌 1

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